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Welcome back to Significant 
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We are your hosts, 2 cousins. 
My name is Mel. 

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And I'm Kel. 
And next week we will be 3 

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cousins. 
Three cousins. 

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Kind of it's so we will be 
joined by a third Co host who is

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Kelly's sister. 
So in a way it's like 2 Sisters 

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and a cousin. 
My sister Caitlin is joining the

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podcast full time. 
If you didn't hear it last 

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episode, this is our big 
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She's being promoted because 
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listens immediately. 
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She's even come up with like, 
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randomly made a video for us 
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So she loves significant lovers.
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Yep, Yep. 
Caitlin, we can't wait for you 

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to join us and we are very 
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week. 
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Today, Kel, who are we talking? 
About today We are continuing 

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our countdown to Halloween. 
Caitlin's episode is going to be

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Halloween esque as well. 
It's spooky season, and this 

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episode in particular, I might 
add in some Thunder, some spooky

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church bells, some crows kind 
because this is a gothic couple.

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This is Mary and Percy Shelley. 
Mary Shelley is the novelist 

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best known for writing 
Frankenstein. 

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Heard of it I've. 
Heard. 

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Of it, Percy Shelley was also a 
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He was a poet, philosopher, 
article writer, and believe it 

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or not, Percy Shelley used to be
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back in the day. 
Is it 1 of? 

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Those that much recognition. 
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Like is it one of those jewels 
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after she had died? 
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But I think even after she died,
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famous for his poetry and he was
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he was just like this notable 
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I didn't even realize that 
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to college syllabuses and 
syllabi until the 1960s. 

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Like it wasn't really recognized
as like a classic literature 

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until pretty recently. 
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Remember hearing that in high 
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Yeah, that's crazy, I know. 
Did you ever read Frankenstein 

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Mill? 
We did, Yeah, I think. 

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I think in my English literature
class we read it. 

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Cool. 
Yeah. 

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I also read it in college. 
I was trying to remember what 

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the class was like, what the 
theme was, but I couldn't 

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remember. 
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book just yesterday. 
I should have done it a while 

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ago, but I was revisiting it. 
I think I'm going to keep 

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reading it. 
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created one of the most 
influential gothic stories in 

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history, I think you could say. 
I mean, she created a new horror

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creature. 
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Frankenstein movies. 
He's just like a type of 

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mythical creature now in a way, 
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There's so many. 
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Frankenstein I saw this year and
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It's a great movie. 
I really recommend it. 

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It's written by the same woman 
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Body. 
It's so good. 

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Oh, wait, yeah, you were telling
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Yeah, I love Lisa Frankenstein, 
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this. 
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recently there was a movie 
called Mary Shelley starring 

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Elle Fanning about a lot of 
things we're going to talk about

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today, but I haven't seen the 
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I didn't want it to, you know, 
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I'm sure it's not like totally 
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want to see it. 
I also didn't realize there's a 

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movie called Haunted Summers 
starring Laura Dern about this 

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relationship and things that 
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And there's also a movie 
starring Hugh Grant called Going

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with the Wind about this. 
I need to watch them. 

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I feel like because of this 
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I'm like, I need to see that. 
I know. 

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Yeah, but I'm the same deal. 
I'm, I'm working on research for

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a couple right now that has some
form of media made about them. 

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But I'm like, I don't like to 
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researching and let it influence
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Yeah, cause a lot of times it's 
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you get kind of attached to the 
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Yeah, but it also is sometimes 
nice to compare like, oh, in the

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depiction I I feel like in walk 
the Line I that was a helpful 

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one with the Johnny and June. 
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And so we should watch them to 
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what's. 
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It's fun to see after though. 
Like, I remember I saw the 

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Priscilla movie after I did all 
that research, and it was really

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satisfying. 
I was like so pumped. 

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Yeah, yeah, to see. 
You come to life. 

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But yeah, this, this is a pretty
dark story. 

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There is gonna be a lot of death
in it. 

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Oh no. 
By the. 

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Way, I mean, I feel like a lot 
of our episodes do have mentions

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of death, 'cause we're talking 
about people, but. 

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Yeah, exactly. 
And everybody has a. 

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Lot. 
Everybody dies. 

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Yes. 
Unfortunately. 

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It's true. 
Let's talk about it. 

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Well, not right now, but we 
will, I guess. 

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Before I get into the episode, I
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Thank you to Gabby, Jennifer, 

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Happy to have you. 

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OK, Mary and Percy Shelley, 3 
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this couple are intellectual 
debaucherous. 

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Oh. 
And cursed. 

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Uh Oh yeah, because I was 
thinking even though she writes 

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a Halloweeny story, is the 
actual relationship kind of 

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spooky as well? 
There are spooky things in this 

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story besides the fact that she 
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see. 
So Mary Shelley, who was she? 

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Ray, I will have to stop the 
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